Whats with all the lurking?

Everytime I get to the main page I always see that the ratio of members to guests is always very slanted towards guests. For example, right now there are 12 members and 82 guests viewing. And its like this all the time. So I ask you out there who have not registered and posted but continue to voyeur: whats with the lurking?

Re: Whats with all the lurking?

Perhaps while searching for that Coachella spirit, they discovered you need boots to wade through some of the shit here, and have chosen out of morbid curiosity, to observe safely from the sidelines instead...

Re: Whats with all the lurking?

People lurk, doodles. It's the human condition. Didn't most of you lurk for a while before you spoke on here? To get a sense of what you were entering into? Nevermind - if you didn't - you might not be the type of person that needs to assess their surroundings before introducing themselves.
In that case, more power to you - but I personally know I lurked for a couple of months before I posted. I like to know the temperature of the water before I jump in.
I also had more respect for this internet microcosm community than I probably should have.

Re: Whats with all the lurking?

Originally Posted by Jenniehoo

People lurk, doodles. It's the human condition. Didn't most of you lurk for a while before you spoke on here? To get a sense of what you were entering into? Nevermind - if you didn't - you might not be the type of person that needs to assess their surroundings before introducing themselves.
In that case, more power to you - but I personally know I lurked for a couple of months before I posted. I like to know the temperature of the water before I jump in.
I also had more respect for this internet microcosm community than I probably should have.

Agreed. PLUS, Where the F is PF? Do us a favor and delete these Bullshit Shoes.com threads. it makes me sick

Superfan will be in front of the Fonda masturbating furiously to a photo of him taking a photo of a band. Set is from 8:05 to approximately 8:05:15. Guest list only.

Re: Whats with all the lurking?

A large percentage of the "guests" are probably spiders or whatever you call them, who are indexing everything for search engines. I don't know. I don't really understand the internet. But I think that only a few of our guests are actually humans.

I think I only lurked for an hour or so. I remember buying my tickets, and clicking for some reason on a link to the messageboard. I have no idea why. Ordinarily, I don't click things like that. But I remember seeing something and wanting to respond to it, and then thinking that it was a pain in the ass that I had to sign up just to respond to one little comment.

Re: Whats with all the lurking?

I lurked for a while when the 2006 line up was announced. I disappeared for about a year after I realized I wasn't going to be able to go. Jan. 07 rolls around and I registered, but changed my user name in May because of stalkers. Watch out for stalkers.